CVE-2018-9275

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9275
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-9275.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-9275
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-04-04T18:29:02Z
Modified
2025-10-21T04:40:48.004812Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In checkusertoken in util.c in the Yubico PAM module (aka pam_yubico) 2.18 through 2.25, successful logins can leak file descriptors to the auth mapping file, which can lead to information disclosure (serial number of a device) and/or DoS (reaching the maximum number of file descriptors).

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/yubico/yubico-pam

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/yubico/yubico-pam
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

2.*

2.10
2.11
2.12
2.13
2.14
2.15
2.16
2.17
2.18
2.19
2.20
2.21
2.22
2.23
2.24
2.25
2.5
2.6
2.6pre2
2.6pre3
2.7
2.8
2.9

v2.*

v2.6

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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        "source": "https://github.com/yubico/yubico-pam/commit/0f6ceabab0a8849b47f67d727aa526c2656089ba",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "util.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2018-9275-73e96989",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
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                "308494850977619412175153327874514612777",
                "203417458892300943278019038761638732730"
            ]
        },
        "signature_type": "Line"
    },
    {
        "source": "https://github.com/yubico/yubico-pam/commit/0f6ceabab0a8849b47f67d727aa526c2656089ba",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "function": "check_user_token",
            "file": "util.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2018-9275-fa157aba",
        "digest": {
            "length": 1698.0,
            "function_hash": "119299559369141334615512022658670539382"
        },
        "signature_type": "Function"
    }
]